Dariel: A Romance of Surrey
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Blackmore Richard Doddridge. Dariel: A Romance of Surrey
CHAPTER I. A NIGHTINGALE
CHAPTER II. THE FAMILY
CHAPTER III. TOM ERRICKER
CHAPTER IV. MR. STONEMAN
CHAPTER V. TICKNOR'S MEW
CHAPTER VI. TRUE HYGIENE
CHAPTER VII. KUBAN
CHAPTER VIII. THROUGH THE CORN
CHAPTER IX. STRANGE SENSATIONS
CHAPTER X. UPON THE GROUND
CHAPTER XI. SÛR IMAR
CHAPTER XII. IN THE BACKGROUND
CHAPTER XIII. SMILES AND TEARS
CHAPTER XIV. THE RUBY CROSS
CHAPTER XV. SISTER v. SWEETHEART
CHAPTER XVI. INTERNATIONAL ELEMENTS
CHAPTER XVII. PEPPERCORNS
CHAPTER XVIII. A LOVEBIRD
CHAPTER XIX. TO CLEAR THE WAY
CHAPTER XX. NOT FOR SALE
CHAPTER XXI. VOICES OF THE VALLEY
CHAPTER XXII. IMAR'S TALE – WAR
CHAPTER XXIII. IMAR'S TALE – LOVE
CHAPTER XXIV. IMAR'S TALE – PEACE
CHAPTER XXV. IMAR'S TALE – CRIME
CHAPTER XXVI. IMAR'S TALE – REVENGE
CHAPTER XXVII. IMAR'S TALE – EXILE
CHAPTER XXVIII. SANGUINE STILL
CHAPTER XXIX. LARGE AND LONG VIEWS
CHAPTER XXX. IN THE QUIET PLACES
CHAPTER XXXI. PIT-A-PAT
CHAPTER XXXII. A PAINFUL DUTY
CHAPTER XXXIII. TREMBLING
CHAPTER XXXIV. REJOICING
CHAPTER XXXV. A RACE OF PLATERS
CHAPTER XXXVI. GONE, GONE, GONE
CHAPTER XXXVII. LOVERS MAKE MOAN
CHAPTER XXXVIII. BLACK FRIDAY
CHAPTER XXXIX. FRANGI, NON FLECTI
CHAPTER XL. TWAIN MORE THAN TWIN
CHAPTER XLI. A CROOKED BILLET
CHAPTER XLII. FAREWELL, SMILER
CHAPTER XLIII. THE LAND OF MEDEA
CHAPTER XLIV. THE LAND OF PROMETHEUS
CHAPTER XLV. AMONG THE GEMS
CHAPTER XLVI. QUEEN MARVA
CHAPTER XLVII. WOLF'S MEAT
CHAPTER XLVIII. USI, THE SVÂN
CHAPTER XLIX. THE EYE OF GOD
CHAPTER L. TWO OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER LI. THE ROOT OF EVIL
CHAPTER LII. STILL IN THE DARK
CHAPTER LIII. A RUTHLESS SCHEME
CHAPTER LIV. THE VALLEY OF RETRIBUTION
CHAPTER LV. AT THE BAR
CHAPTER LVI. HARD IS THE FIGHT
CHAPTER LVII. BUT NOT IN VAIN
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It is said, and seems worthy of belief – though denied quite lately by a great Frenchman – that there are in the world no fairer damsels than those of our own dear island. Graceful, elegant, straight and goodly, gentle – which is the first point of all – yet lively and able to take their own part, eager moreover to please, and clever to obtain what they want by doing so, they have no cause to envy their brothers, or feel ungrateful to Providence for making them fair. If any of them do that sometimes, when led astray every now and then by feminine agitators, for the most part they will come back to themselves, if left without contradiction.
My sister Grace, for instance, was one of the best and kindest-hearted English girls that ever blushed. Far in front of me, I confess, in quickness of apprehension, and perception of character, and readiness of answer, and I might almost say in common-sense; though I never quite conceded that, because I had so much need of it. Nevertheless she looked up to me, as her elder by five years, and a man. Therefore, it was my custom always to listen with much toleration to her, and often adopt her views in practice, after shaking my head for the time at them. For she always finished her orations with, "Well, brother George, you are sure to know the best."
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"Not another step. I am not at all sure that I ought to have brought you so far as this. However, you can hold your tongue, I know; and you are upon your honour about all this. Well, that is the wall of an old monastery, more than five hundred years old, I believe, and connected with that ancient chapel on the hills. Naturally, it is all in ruins now, and there has been an attempt to set a mill up in its place."
"The best thing to be done with it," Tom replied, for his nature was not reverent. "But a mill should have paid, if it had any water. Free trade has not had time to destroy the pounders yet, although it has killed the producers. But I don't want to hear about monks and mills. The lovely nuns are more to my taste."
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